Charles Cross v. Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson. Summons of Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson
District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia--Greeting:
We command you that you take summon Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson late of Washington County, if they shall be found within the County of Washington, in your said District, and safely keep, so that you they be and appear have bod before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the County aforesaid, at the City of Washington, on the fourth Monday of November next, to answer unto the Petition for freedom of Charles Cross filed in the said Court against them.
Hereof fail not, at your peril, and have you then and there this writ:
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, Chief Judge of our said Court, at the City of Washington, the 13th day of July Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and 37.
Issued the 21st day of July 1837.
Wm Brent Clk
Hoban
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Charles Cross
vs.
Joseph W. Neale & Oliver Simpson
Capi 4 Bre
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Petition for freedom.
Non Sunt
Alexr Hunter
Marshal
